nathan



have invented a new Improvement in Skirt Elevator; and

@uiten faire getest ffirrfI 'F.NATH'AN, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.` A Latas Patent No. 61,236, dated January 15,1861.

IMPNOvEMBNT 1N SKIRT NLnvATons.

TO ALL WHCM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, A. F. NATHAN, of New Haven, in the county vof New Haven, Aand State of Connecticut, I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, an edge view.

Figure 2, a central section of the elevator detached from the skirt; and in Figures 3 and 4, the skirt as dropped and looped up.

My invention relates to an improvement in device for looping up skirts of ladies" dresses; and consists in Vthe peculiar manner in which a three-barred slide is arranged at a fixed point upon the skirt, and combined with a tape or other ribbon attached to the skirt at a distance below the said fixed slide, and the said tape passing up over the middle bar of the slide, draws the skirt up more or less, and the peculiar arrangement of the slide holds it'secure in any position.

To enable others to construct my improvement, I will proceed to describe the same, as illustrated in the Yaccompanying drawings.-

A is a common three-barred slide, a b and c being the bars, as seen in iig. 2. B is the -loop to which the slide A is fixed, which is done by passing one vend under the bar c, over the bar 6, under 'the bar a, returning over the bar a and b, and under the bars c, as shown in said iig. 2, and there secured by its own friction, or in lany convenient manner. C is the looping tape orribbon, one end of which passes over the bar b and under the bar a, as denoted in g. 2, and arranged in any convenient manner to prevent its accidental withdrawal from the slide A, here represented as fixed to a ring, D, and through which the other part of the tape passes. The loop B is secured to the skirt upon the inside by stitching or other convenient manner, as seen in fig. 3. The free end of the other tape is attached below, as at d, iig. 3'.

When desired to loop up the skirt, take hold of the tape to which the ring D is fixed, and draw the tape until the skirt is sufficiently elevated; and when it is desired to lower the skirt, take hold cf the slide A, and turn it to theiposition denotedin red, tig. 2, which frees the tape so that it may be readily drawn down. By this arrangement the loop B acts as a lever to increase the friction upon the tape C and prevent its accidentally sliding down. And by this arrangement, also, the skirt may be elevated until the points of attachment of tha:l loop and tape approach very nearly to each other, as seen in g 4.

I do not broadly claim a looping device formed of tape or other ribbon; but having thus fully described my invention, what I do claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement of the slide A upon `the loop B, in the manner described, in combination with the tape C,

substantially as herein set forth. v A. F. NATHAN.

TWitnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, JOHN H. SHUMMAY. 

